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Influence of a Perfectly Conducting Plate on the Uehling Potential of QED
Thales Azevedo, Fabricio A. Barone, Carlos Farina, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Gabriel Zarpelon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00243

Influence of a Perfectly Conducting Plate on the Uehling Potential of QED
In this work, we investigate the influence of a perfectly conducting plate on the Uehling potential of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), corresponding to the first loop correction to the classical Coulomb potential in that situation. We use the method of images adapted to the photon propagator, extending the method beyond the standard (classical) tree level calculation. We show that the effect of the plate on the quantum correction is much stronger than the expectation from a naive application of …